One week without the boss
24th November 2006, Friday
Today marked the end of the first week with our French supervisor on her maternity leave and what a roller-coaster ride it had been thus far...
She gave birth to her 4.1kg (huge!) baby boy on Tuesday evening and we prayed it would actually be on Wednesday morning; if not it would be by more than mere coincidence, or what we felt is a real curse to share the same birthday as Beautiness....
She would exclaimed in her usual gayish tone that it was godsend for the baby to be born on the same day as her/him/it...and the scary (and convulsing) part would be our supervisor would actually celebrate such an eerie coincidence with her...
Just don't me to be in the same room as those two when they actually realized, or someone is gonna get hurt...
Anyway my beloved Man Utd lost at Celtic's Parkhead stadium, putting them in precarious qualifying position in the Champions League on the same night as well..talk about curse...
My dear colleague, BY had been too candid with words these days, though at smaller degree it might hurt feelings or cause misunderstanding among colleagues but an incident yesterday seems much detrimental...
So we were having lunch at the pantry when our American boss, we commonly known as "shitty-green pants" these days waltzed in for his usual after-lunch cup of cheap 3-in-1 coffee...
We were in the middle of a conversation regarding drinking sugared drinks would cause pancreatic cancer and shitty-green went on to add diabetes into the common illness as a result of binging in soft drinks...
This led BY to told him about the diabetes project we had been involved for another boss and the results were quite horrendous...
At that precise moment, the other boss came into the pantry and by sheer immaturity shitty-green is famous for, he turned around and scornfully spiking the other boss about how he would be able to come out with a scientific paper with such poor results...
Perhaps the other boss knew his colleague was terribly tactless and could just be joking, thus he brushed that aside...however he didn't looked amused and neither were us who had been on site for the whole incident...
It didn't shine a good light on either of us for revealing information of a project to another boss and could hinder our progress in our current career especially when both os us would be seeking a promotion come next work year...
If our supervisor was present at work, she would frown on such an incident as well
While we both agreed to adopt that "wait and see" tactic to determine whether we should find greener pastures soon, by sheer coincidence, BY got a job recommendation from an old friend and wasted no time to attend an interview this very afternoon, even calling off a buffet lunch she had been scheming since early this week...
The other party seems pretty anxious for her recruitment that she claimed they even bother to fly to our island from Australia to do the interview..
The job scope is something like the Lab Inventory Management Systems we had been dealing with, and a great platform for her career to bounce since she had the appropiate degree in computing...
I'm not counting the egg before it hatches but it does seems probable that the person who wooed me to the current job might be leaving mere half a year on...
Her infectious presence would certainly be missed once again and I would have to combat against the dark forces of the Beautiness on my own or with fellow newcomers into the department...
Ultimately our supervisor might not be recuperating too well after labour upon hearing an important character in team would be leaving soon, during her absence somemore...
We will get to know in days time...
Today marked the end of the first week with our French supervisor on her maternity leave and what a roller-coaster ride it had been thus far...
She gave birth to her 4.1kg (huge!) baby boy on Tuesday evening and we prayed it would actually be on Wednesday morning; if not it would be by more than mere coincidence, or what we felt is a real curse to share the same birthday as Beautiness....
She would exclaimed in her usual gayish tone that it was godsend for the baby to be born on the same day as her/him/it...and the scary (and convulsing) part would be our supervisor would actually celebrate such an eerie coincidence with her...
Just don't me to be in the same room as those two when they actually realized, or someone is gonna get hurt...
Anyway my beloved Man Utd lost at Celtic's Parkhead stadium, putting them in precarious qualifying position in the Champions League on the same night as well..talk about curse...
My dear colleague, BY had been too candid with words these days, though at smaller degree it might hurt feelings or cause misunderstanding among colleagues but an incident yesterday seems much detrimental...
So we were having lunch at the pantry when our American boss, we commonly known as "shitty-green pants" these days waltzed in for his usual after-lunch cup of cheap 3-in-1 coffee...
We were in the middle of a conversation regarding drinking sugared drinks would cause pancreatic cancer and shitty-green went on to add diabetes into the common illness as a result of binging in soft drinks...
This led BY to told him about the diabetes project we had been involved for another boss and the results were quite horrendous...
At that precise moment, the other boss came into the pantry and by sheer immaturity shitty-green is famous for, he turned around and scornfully spiking the other boss about how he would be able to come out with a scientific paper with such poor results...
Perhaps the other boss knew his colleague was terribly tactless and could just be joking, thus he brushed that aside...however he didn't looked amused and neither were us who had been on site for the whole incident...
It didn't shine a good light on either of us for revealing information of a project to another boss and could hinder our progress in our current career especially when both os us would be seeking a promotion come next work year...
If our supervisor was present at work, she would frown on such an incident as well
While we both agreed to adopt that "wait and see" tactic to determine whether we should find greener pastures soon, by sheer coincidence, BY got a job recommendation from an old friend and wasted no time to attend an interview this very afternoon, even calling off a buffet lunch she had been scheming since early this week...
The other party seems pretty anxious for her recruitment that she claimed they even bother to fly to our island from Australia to do the interview..
The job scope is something like the Lab Inventory Management Systems we had been dealing with, and a great platform for her career to bounce since she had the appropiate degree in computing...
I'm not counting the egg before it hatches but it does seems probable that the person who wooed me to the current job might be leaving mere half a year on...
Her infectious presence would certainly be missed once again and I would have to combat against the dark forces of the Beautiness on my own or with fellow newcomers into the department...
Ultimately our supervisor might not be recuperating too well after labour upon hearing an important character in team would be leaving soon, during her absence somemore...
We will get to know in days time...
Japanese word of the day: 同時発生(Coincidence) The bad ones can really get to me...
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